0701 - The 'Kanim' in 770 - Nigleh and Chassidus

00:02 I'd like to describe a little bit the union of the Khanim that were in 770. In Tov Shenut Tes, Drebe came out with the Ganze Shturem of Ufaratzto. But it was not only Ufaratzto in Afot Sam Yonas and spreading Yiddishkeit, etc., etc., being Mekare Viden, but also Ufaratzto in learning, that people should learn more Ufaratzto than Drebe Teiches Beligvul, to learn much more than you learned before. And that's when Drebe established the concept of the K'nei HaM'neira. We know the M'neira had seven branches. So Drebe said that seven Bochrim should be chosen from the Yeshiva 770, that they should give themselves over specifically more to learning Nigleh, and other seven should be given over to learning Chassidis. And they were called the Khanim because the branches of the M'neira, the M'neira represents Torah, these are the branches of the M'neira, so there are seven branches, seven Khanim of Nigleh and seven Khanim of Chassidis. And their job was to learn extra, but besides that, Drebe wanted that they should say Pilpulim. The seven Bochrim that were chosen to be Khanim of Nigleh would say a Pilpul once every seven weeks in Nigleh. And the Bochrim who were the Khanim in Chassidis would say a Pilpul in Chassidis, which was also a big Chidish, that Bochrim should say Pilpulim in Chassidis, that's something that wasn't used, we're not used to. In Lubavitch, it wasn't such a thing. It started a little bit in Hatomim that there are people who wrote Pilpulim in Chassidis like this. People

01:25 had said that's Beitim, but the concept of a Pilpul in Chassidis, especially by Bochrim, was something new, but Drebe wanted that should happen. And these Pilpulim were printed, printed in Kontres, in Keftzim called Pilpul Atalmidim. The Pilpulim were said, the Pilpulim in Nigleh were said Motze Shabbos. Pilpulim in Chassidis were said Friday night. This was time, winter time when there was Seder Motze Shabbos. Summer time when there was no Seder Motze Shabbos, so the Pilpulim in Nigleh were said Friday because Friday afternoon there was a longer Seder. And then these were written down by the Bochrim, but looked, went over by the editorial board, the Mareches of the Nigleh in Chassidis. The Mareches of Nigleh mainly was Harav Mentlik, one of the Rosh Yeshivas in 770. And the Mareches of Chassidis was Rebbe Yael and Rebbe Dovid. And they would write, they would look over the Pilpulim that they wrote and then it was printed. And it's interesting, on the Kevetz of Pilpul Atalmidim it said this heading, Kevetz Pilpul Atalmidim ben Nigleh be Chassidis. And then said Nemru be Beis HaMedrash of Keved Kedushas Ad Mor Shlita Lubavitch. That it was said in the Beis HaMedrash of the Rebbe and then it said Lubavitch. So it's interesting to note it didn't say that this was said in the Yeshivas Tem Chatmimim because these were Talmidim of Tem Chatmimim. But it mainly, it said basically that it said in the Beis HaMedrash of the Rebbe. In other words, this made a connection to the Rebbe

03:03 even more. I don't know who said to write that, if it's the Rebbe or it came otherwise. But the point here is that it's not Atalmidim of Yeshiva. This is a thing that came from the Rebbe and it's something that has to do with discussions of the Rebbe. And on top of the Kuntres, on the front page, on the Sharbalat, it quoted the Mishnah in Pirkei Avos where it says, in actually the Brais of Pirkei Kavov, it says, The Torah you could acquire 48 ways and one of the ways is Pilpul Atalmidim. And that's the reason for the Kevetz called Pilpul Atalmidim. And this brought a lot of Chayes Dake in learning and this went on for many years like that. And as I assume, and I'm pretty sure that it's still going on, that there is such a thing as seven Khanim in Nigleh, seven Khanim in Chassidis, and they say Pilpulim. I don't know exactly how it works now, the Gampa printing and how it works and who's over, looks over, etc., etc. But that was what was going on throughout all the years on the Chofs and then the Lameds. And hopefully it's still going on.